Susan N Dahlin

Attorney

Former Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney

Attorney Susan N. Dahlin has spent many years honing her skills and representing
defendants and their respective insurers. Since joining the Law Office
of Marshall Silberberg, she has moved over to the other side of the bar
where she has the opportunity to take a more personal approach to cases
on the plaintiff’s side. Using the experience she gained as a defense
lawyer; Dahlin brings a perspective of skepticism as well as a wealth
of medical knowledge to her cases. This background allows her to assess
the liability and causation issues from a position of knowledge.

As a naturally inquisitive person, Dahlin both enjoys and understands the
best way to comb through a medical record, using that time to not only
advance her client’s claims but also to advance her own knowledge
on the subject. She has earned the respect of her peers over the years
through her confident approach and takes pride in maintaining a sense
of humor after all these years, a requisite skill to calm, engender confidence,
bring levity where indicated, to disarm, and smooth waters.

Experience Working With Some of the Biggest Hospitals in the Country

Prior to relocating to Orange County in 1998, Dahlin worked as a partner
at one of the oldest and largest firms in New Orleans where she represented
the interests of physicians and hospitals in medical negligence claims.
During that time, she represented three of the largest hospitals in the
city and managed not only their litigation needs but their healthcare
law matters as well. She and her firm also represented the major insurers
of the day, and her docket ran from 150-200 cases under management on
a regular basis.

The defining moments of Dahlin’s career all centered on obtaining
good results for her healthcare clients. On that side of the bar, that
meant securing a dismissal on Summary Judgment or prevailing at trial
with the plaintiff taking nothing. She was also a regular lecturer at
defense counsel seminars and at her facilities, where she spoke on matters
arising in the field of medical negligence, changes in healthcare law,
and mental healthcare.

When taking on a medical malpractice case, no matter which side of the
bar she represents, Dahlin takes considerable satisfaction in mastering
and conveying the medicine of each case. While the attorney’s job
is to marshal the law to their client’s advantage, it is the medicine
that ultimately becomes the defining variable in every medical malpractice
case. Getting through the science, respecting the experts and conveying
complex theories and causation to the satisfaction of the trier of fact
is a key part of Dahlin’s approach to each case.

Becoming A Plaintiffs’ Attorney

After moving to Irvine, CA in 1998 and completing the bar exam, Dahlin
continued her defense practice with established firms in Orange County
where she first practiced with Marshall Silberberg. She eventually took
a hiatus from her career to raise her two children – now 15 and
17 and heading off to college soon – but is thrilled to return with
a renewed perspective and devotion to her clients and their success.

Dahlin relates to her clients on a personal level from the initial consultation
through the conclusion of the matter. Because the Law Office of Marshall
Silberberg specializes in catastrophic injury cases, the clients she works
with are especially in need of a personal commitment to their causes.
She enjoys the shared process of working with her clients, healthcare
providers, and experts in collaboration with each party to hone her arguments
in order to obtain the best outcome possible. Dahlin takes an organized
approach in managing her cases that assures her clients that there is
a process, a plan, and progress towards achieving their objectives.

Bar Admissions

California

Louisiana

Education

The University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL – Juris Doctorate,
Alabama Law Review, Senior Editor

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